Using Ellenberg-Pignatti values to estimate habitat preferences of wild food and medicinal plants: an example from northeastern Istria (Croatia)

Kosić, Ivana Vitasović; Juračak, Josip; Łuczaj, Łukasz

doi:10.1186/s13002-017-0159-6

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“…The list of wild vegetables used is very typical for the Mediterranean areas of Europe [15, 16, 26, 42, 47–56]. It is also similar to those recorded in other parts of Croatia [19–24].…”

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The ethnobotany and biogeography of wild vegetables in the Adriatic islands

Łuczaj

Jug-Dujaković

Dolina

et al. 2019

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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Background Archipelagos of islands have played an important role in shaping some of the paradigms of biology, including the theory of the evolution of species. Later, their importance in biology was further emphasised by the theory of island biogeography, which contributed to a better understanding of the shaping of species richness not only on real islands, but on isolated habitat islands as well. Although ethnobotany is a well-established discipline, patterns of knowledge about plant uses in archipelagos have never been quantitatively analysed, and the whole concept has been only briefly mentioned in the ethnobiological context. The aim of our study was to record which taxa of wild vegetables have been consumed in the Adriatic islands and to establish if such variables as island size, population size, flora or its isolation are correlated with the number of wild vegetables used. Methods We interviewed 225 people (15 from each island). Results Altogether, the use of 89 species of wild vegetables has been recorded. The largest number of wild vegetables is eaten on the islands of Korčula, Vis and Šolta, and the lowest on Ugljan, Cres and Dugi Otok. The studied independent variables had a small and statistically not significant effect on the wild vegetable list length. The most visible effect was an increasing trend from north-west to south-east, overrunning the typical biogeographical island patterns. Moreover, one of the large and well-populated islands, Korčula, showed an ‘unusually’ high level of wild vegetable use. We hypothesise that the current use of so many species on this island has been maintained by the inhabitants’ awareness that they are the holders of relic knowledge, an awareness reiterated by ethnographic and popular publications, as well as a strong history of famine. The most interesting edible species used in the Adriatic islands are Bunium alpinum , Cytinus hypocystis (both mainly on Pašman), Lotus edulis (on Vis) and Posidonia oceanica (on Vis and Korčula). Conclusions The recorded relationships between the demographic and geographical features of the islands were statistically not significant. We assume that cultural and historical factors diversifying the use of plants in particular islands are stronger than the above-mentioned measurable variables.

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“…The list of wild vegetables used is very typical for the Mediterranean areas of Europe [15, 16, 26, 42, 47–56]. It is also similar to those recorded in other parts of Croatia [19–24].…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 57%

The ethnobotany and biogeography of wild vegetables in the Adriatic islands

Łuczaj

Jug-Dujaković

Dolina

et al. 2019

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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“…The observed degree of overlap between food and medicinal plants is very typical in other areas of Europe [36][37][38][39][40][41]. Particularly similar are the results from a study in Istria (also in pericoastal but inland Croatia) [36], where, out of 121 species, 31 species are used exclusively in a food context, 50 species are used exclusively as medicine, and 40 species overlap (i.e., 33%). This is nearly identical to our study, where, out of 123 plant taxa, 41 are used exclusively for treating a variety of ailments, 43 exclusively as food, and 42 as both food and medicine (i.e., 34%).…”

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The first contribution to the ethnobotany of inland Dalmatia: medicinal and wild food plants of the Knin area, Croatia

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An ethnobotanical survey was carried out in the Knin area (northern Dalmatia, Croatia) with the aim of recording traditional plant use by the local (native) people and contributing to the knowledge of plant biodiversity in the investigated area. Ethnobotanical data were collected by interviewing 40 local people at 17 locations. Data on 123 plant taxa (on average 21 taxa per interview) and 122 unique medicinal and 18 food uses in the local community were recorded. Prevalent medicinal uses of the recorded taxa were the treatment of digestive, respiratory, cardiovascular disorders, and injuries. The most commonly used plant parts gathered were leaves (35%) and flowers (20%). The most commonly collected plants in the investigated area were: Urtica dioica, Thymus longicaulis, Sambucus nigra, and Hypericum perforatum.

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“…It is widely used both in Europe and adjacent territories (Kalusová et al, 2016;Berg et al, 2017;Britton et al, 2017;Čeplová et al, 2017;Chmura et al, 2017;Hülber et al, 2017;Muir, 2017;Pruchniewicz, 2017;Santini et al, 2017;Johansen et al, 2018;Roeling et al, 2018). Its modern version was supplemented and adapted by many foreign authors (Douda et al, 2016;Dyderski et al, 2016;Ewald & Ziche, 2016;Koch et al, 2016;Van Dobben & de Vries, 2016;Elst et al, 2017;Mitchell et al, 2017;Vitasović Kosić et al, 2017;Kılıç et al, 2018;Kosanic et al, 2018).…”

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Comparison of commonly used ecological scales with the Belgard Plant Ecomorph System

Baranovski¹,

Roschina²,

Karmyzova³

et al. 2018

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There are several ecological scales developed both for phytoindication of ecological factors and plant ecomorphs. Among them, the scales of Ellenberg and Tsyganov are the most commonly used. L. G. Ramensky and P. S. Pogrebnyak had developed a phytoindication method; they also were founders of first ecological scale of plant species in relation to various environmental factors. One of first ecomorph systems was developed by Alexander Lyutsianovich Belgard. In 1947, Belgard presented a tabular ecomorph system in his doctoral dissertation, and later in monograph “Forest vegetation of the South-East of Ukraine”. In the system he used abbreviated Latin names applying terminology proposed in the late 19th century by Dekandol, Warmin and other authors. He considered ecomorphs as adaptations of plants to environmental conditions in forests of the steppe zone of Ukraine where forest cenoses are exposed to processes of steppization, prairification, swamping, salinization, and thus clarification of relationships between forest, meadow, steppe, marsh and weed plant species was essential. Therefore, development and introduction of cenomorph terms as “adaptation of plant species to phytocenosis as a whole” were an absolutely new contribution to the concept of ecomorph system. In environmental factor scales of Ellenberg and other authors, environment characteristics based on phytoindication were underlined; in the Belgard Plant Ecomorph System, ecomorphs reflect ability of plant species to grow within certain ranges of a given factor. These approaches are quite comparable, and ecomorphs of the Belgard system correspond to certain grades of the Ellenberg and Tsyganov scales. The Belgard ecomorph system has been applied in a number of fundamental and applied works on plant ecology and phytocenology. It is convenient for characterizing ecological features of plant species growing in the steppe zone with a wide range of environment factors such as lighting, humidity, and soil richness. Other authors have expanded and supplemented the Belgard Plant Ecomorph System based on its strategy. A number of ecomorphs was introduced; they reflect intermediate or extreme gradations of factors. A new cenomorph – silvomargoant – has been proposed by the authors of this paper.

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Using Ellenberg-Pignatti values to estimate habitat preferences of wild food and medicinal plants: an example from northeastern Istria (Croatia)

Cited by 32 publications

References 27 publications

The ethnobotany and biogeography of wild vegetables in the Adriatic islands

The ethnobotany and biogeography of wild vegetables in the Adriatic islands

The first contribution to the ethnobotany of inland Dalmatia: medicinal and wild food plants of the Knin area, Croatia

Comparison of commonly used ecological scales with the Belgard Plant Ecomorph System

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